Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-10
TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLAR
SERENE PROPOSED.
A ~l5-year-old Girl Dragged to Death by
Fractions Broncso.
A BANK STARTED IN NEW YORK, WITH Ex'
SECRETARY MANNING AS PRESIDENT.
Death of Billy WEIGH, The Famous
Negro Minstrel.
ESPECIAL TO THE sESTISEL.1
Seven People Drowned.


CHICAGO, May "a special to the
| Inter-Ocean from New Orleans says
several colored congregations of Bap-
fist Churches in this city have long
made it the. practice to baptize mem
bers in the Mississippi river at certain
selected points both in the upper and
lower districts OF the city. The swift
current of the river has always made
the custom more or less dangerous,
but the chances of mishaps have,
until to-day, thought to have been re-
duced to a minimum by the care ex-
ercised in selecting a place for the
ceremony, where the water was shall
low. To-day, however, an accident
happened, at which seven lives are
known to and more may have been
lost. Mount Zion Baptist Church has
been baptizing its converts at the foot
of a district. Beside the spot was a
large wharf, which extends into deep
| water. A large crowd assembled on
the wharf, and in the midst OF the ex-
| ~ercises the railing surrounding it gave
way, and fully 80 people were precipl-
tated into the river. Around the
| wharf were a number of skiffs, and
into them many of the people were
thrown, overturning several boats, and
adding to the number of those strug-
| Cling in the water were the occupants
of these skiffs. AS stated, seven are
known to have been drowned, and it is
believed that from five to eight more
persisted.
A se5 100000 scheme.
CHICAGO, May 9.-The Tribune says
the celebrated American Cotton Seed
Oil Trust will soon be entirely over
Swallowed by the New Investment
Trust, in which no less than S25 ,000,-
600 has been invested. The new COM
bination is the American Cattle Trust,
with its interests centered in New
York, Chicago and the great cattle
ranches Of the West. The Western
Trustees just selected are: Frank E.
Vogel, of the Fairbank Canning Com
pany. Chicago; Ex-Governor Rout, of
colorado; Thomas Sturgis, President
OF the Wyoming Cattle Company of
Cheyenne; Captain Lvtle, of Texas,
and d. III. Head, President of the
American Ranch Association. Asso-
ciated with these is a large number of
heavy Eastern capitalists. The OBJ
ject of the great Trust is to largely in
crease, develop and encourage the
raising and handling of cattle, the
slaughtering of them by first hands
and the placing OF their productions
in the different markets of the world.
The new venture is to be inaugurated
upon an immense scale. About $685.
900 900. it is said, have been paid in.
The meeting of the Trust will be held
in New York next week.
Dragged to Death.
SToNEwALL, COL, May 9.-Fanny
Murray, aged Is, LETT home early Satur-
day morning to visit her brother, some
three miles distant, and was permit
ted ride a broncho horse, the same be-
ing equipped with a mans saddle. At
a point about half way home she
alighted to open the gate. In remov-
ing the saddle turned, frightening the
broncho, who dashed across the fields,
dragging the girl, whose foot was
fastened in the stirrup, some two miles
distant from the gate. The horse and
rider lay side by side, the girl dead,
with nearly every vestige of clothing
stripped from her save a shawl, which
was wrapped tightly about her head,
and gripped firmly in her teeth. The
broncho was nearly dead from ex-
haustion. Mr.. Murray and family
came here a few years ago from Boston.
A New Bank started.
WASHINGTON, May 9.-The Comp
%troller OF Currency to-day authorized
the Western National Bank of the city
of New York to begin business with a
capital of three million five hundred
thousand dollars. Daniel Manning,
President, and Ferdinand Blankin-
horn, cashier.
DeatI, OF Billy WEIGH.
New York, May Billy WEIGH,
the well known minstrel, died in this
city yesterday.